, Reading Writing Skills Modal Verbs! Spellings s Here are some modal verbs (can, could, may, should, must, have to) This week’s spellings theme is words ending in ‘ment’. Equipment Environment Movement The world bog snorkelling 1. Are you faster than championship in Wales is Enjoyment cheese rolling down a hill? Why do I ask?? truly one of the world’s Agreement wackiest sports! The Visual Literacy Government sheet has the video link Use all 6 modal verbs above to write down 6 rules for a sport. An example using bog snorkelling: Document and some questions. 1. Swimmers can compete in fancy dress. 2. Bad weather could stop the race. Choose Level 1, 2 or 3 Replacement 3. Swimmers may pause to rest at any time. 4. Swimmers should be older than 14 to take part. Entertainment or do them all! 5. People must wear a snorkel and flippers. 6. Swimmers have to complete two lengths of the trench. Replacement Use any sport or game (chess, football, whatever!) and write 6 rules using these 6 modal verbs! Learn them, find Challenge 2 Writing Challenges out what they all Write a creative short story of mean, and organise Challenge 1 Think of your very own a Wacky Sport. Choose one of your own test for wacky sport. Underwater snooker? these three story starters: Friday! Trampoline tennis? Use your imagination. 1. The zebra was becoming very 2. Open up your Read Give your sport a name and then write difficult to control… To help you learn at least 10 rules for your new sport. them, maybe you All About It page to 2. There was only 4 minutes to can come up with read about a crazy Use the modal verbs above, and think go. I had to do something special Manx sport where about: who can play your sport? Where? sentences or people use wellies, mops When? Is there a score? Referee? What 3. I wasn’t sure what the stories that use and even umbrellas! happens if players break the rules? bucket of Malteasers was for… the words! Down Hill Cheese Chasing Competitions! See the video in the Year 5 area of the ‘Weekly Learning PaCks’ page at hbn.sch.im Or online at https://www.youtube.Com/watCh?v=cvuktushEhY Find out about one of Britain’s most dangerous sports: Downhill Cheese Chasing! Don’t try this at home! Level One: 1. What is the name of the hill that the competition is held at every year? 2. How much of a head start does the cheese get, before the people chase it? Level Two: 3. What injury did the winner of the women’s competition get? 4. At 2:26 it says ‘Anderson went the day without major mishaps’. What is a mishap? Level Three: 5. Why did cheesemakers stop supplying real cheese for the race in 2013? 6. What is your opinion of this sport? Do you think it is ok, even though people get hurt? Read all about…. Cammag, the ancient Manx sport! Hundreds of years ago, before modern sports like football , hockey, cricket and rugby had been invented, there was a sport in the Isle of Man which was so popular sometimes 200 people played it at once ! There is only one rule; that there are no rules! That sport is ‘cammag’. It is a very rough game a little bit like hockey. There are two teams and every player has a camman or bent stick. Teams use their sticks to try and move the crig (a wooden ball) in to the goal to score. Players can even kick the crig or pick it up and run with it, if they are brave enough to risk being hit with everyone else’s sticks. Cammag was played everywhere from schoolyards to village greens, and there can be anything from 2 players to hundreds! It is a little bit like the traditional sports of hurling in Ireland, shinty in Scotland and bando in Wales. There is records of huge matches in the Isle of Man, sometimes between whole villages with a ‘pitch’ covering miles and miles. There is even a record from 1760 of three men and a boy in trouble with the church for playing cammag on a Sunday. Even though it was the most popular sport in the island, once football arrived around 1900 then cammag became forgotten. Apart from once a year! Is it still around today? Nowadays, every Christmas on St Stephen’s Day (Boxing Day) hundreds of people come to St John’s for a big game of cammag, the north versus the south. It is all good fun, and people bring all sorts of different home-made camman (sticks). The traditional camman is cutting a nice thick piece of bent gorse, but people play with umbrellas, brooms… Mr Brooks has even seen people playing with a welly sellotaped to the end of a pole! After the game, everyone meets in the Tynwald Inn pub for food, drink, music and singing. What do you think about the ancient Manx sport of cammag? Would you like to try it one Christmas? Ask someone else in your house to read this too and talk about what you both think! .